Funeral of the leader (1980)

Newsreel from 1924: winter landscape in Gorki.

Panorama of the house in Gorki where V.I. Lenin lived and died.

Text of the Government announcement on the death of V.I. Lenin.

Text of the appeal of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) to party members and all workers on the occasion of the death of V.I. Lenin.

Lenin on his deathbed in Gorki.

Lenin's head on a pillow.

Faces of local residents.

Removal of the coffin with Lenin's body from the house in Gorki, among the pallbearers are Bukharin N.I., Rudzutak Ya.E., Rykov A.I., Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V., Zinoviev G.E., Tomsky M.P. The funeral procession with Lenin's coffin moves to Gerasimovka station.

Views of the funeral procession, with banners carried at the head of the procession.

Lashevich M.M. and Ordzhonikidze G.K. Among those carrying the coffin with Lenin's body.

Funeral train under steam at Gerasimovka station.

Placing the coffin with Lenin's body into the carriage.

Loading funeral wreaths into the carriage.

The red flag flutters in the wind.

People meet the funeral train on its way to Moscow.

Winter landscape.

Delegation to meet the funeral train at Saratovsky (Paveletsky) railway station.

Arrival of the funeral train at Saratovsky railway station.

The face of Clara Zetkin.

Carrying out the coffin with Lenin's body from the carriage.

The face of a man with a beard.

The funeral procession with Lenin's coffin moves along the streets of Moscow.

View of part of the funeral procession (above).

People gather at the entrance to the Column Hall of the House of Unions (above).

Red Army soldiers and workers warm themselves by the fire.

Chandeliers on the walls of the Column Hall.

The coffin with Lenin's body, installed in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Lenin in the coffin.

Ulyanova M.I., Rudzutak Ya.E., Krupskaya N.K., Kalinin M.I., Tomsky M.P. at Lenin's coffin.

Ulyanova-Elizarova A.I. with her adopted son Lozgachev G. in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Ulyanova M.I. in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Lenin in the coffin.

Kalinin in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Voroshilov K.E., Dzerzhinsky F.E. in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Funeral delegations enter the Hall of Columns to say goodbye to Lenin.

Panorama of the funeral rally on Red Square on the day of Lenin's funeral, January 27, 1924. A sentry at the wooden pedestal on Red Square on which the coffin with Lenin's body is installed.

View of the pedestal with Lenin's coffin.

Participants in the funeral procession walk along Red Square, removing their hats.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 16:00. The coffin with Lenin's body is carried through the doors of the temporary wooden mausoleum on Red Square.

A gun salute is fired on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin during the burial of Lenin's body in the mausoleum.

The Baltic Fleet destroyer Trotsky fires a funeral artillery salute.

Funeral horns of factories and plants.